Why can you only open one project at a time in Premiere?

[Vince Becquiot]

You can have multiple sequences with different formats in Premiere CS4, which means that you can import a different size project inside the current one, but you cannot open multiple projects.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Luke Dollard]

you can actually import projects into a current project and it shows up as a bin, not exactly the same as fcp but close.

[Tim Kolb]

If you’ve ever had the opportunity to attempt to straighten out a machine with FCP that has been operated by someone who routinely runs multiple project timelines open (and was not aware that media imported goes into the harddrive directory that corresponds with whatever timeline had the focus at that moment)…you’d be OK with the Premiere Pro system.

It seems like a great idea…and many users have a good handle on it of course, but with FCP’s need to import/convert media from P2 particularly, bins and timelines open from multiple projects can end up sending media to the disk as one sends salt to your eggs if you are bringing in media over the course of the edit…and all the media is always there when you reopen the project because FCP remembers where it put it…and you only get the nasty surprise when you archive the project and when you reload it.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[George Socka]

Because Adobe has not yet figured out, in 2009, how reentrant code programming works. Even Acrobat reader only runs one instance of the program with multiple windows. But then, MS Word works the same way, but at least it opens up independent documents in independent windows. Most of the time. And until we got 64 bit machines with 4 – 8 cores and 20 gb ram, it would not have been worth the effort anyway.

You could get close under Vista 64 by signing on as different users.

George Socka
BeachDigital
http://www.beachdigital.com

[John Frey]

For what it’s worth, I often have 2 or 3 instances of Sony Vegas running at the same time, and they work just fine even on lesser machines. I recently rendered (2)BluRay Mpeg timelines in Vegas while authoring in DVD Architect at the same time. This was on a Quadcore with 8GB of ram running Vista 64. I have been testing/comparing Premiere CS4 recently and do wish Adobe could figure it out! However, Dynamic Link is very cool.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[Vince Becquiot]

It takes me 30 seconds to open a new P2 project on Premiere. In FCP, it takes me 30 minutes to convert the average shoot in P2 Footage into Quicktime so that you can even think about editing (vs less than a minute in Premiere). And well, well Vegas doesn’t even support it natively (more rendering needed…)

If a particular application could be perfect, there would be no competition, and sadly no forum to flame at each other about which has better features 🙂

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Jonas Bendsen]

Yes, it would be great to be able to open multiple projects. I’m currently editing a scene. Someone is sending me XML tests, but in order to not clutter up my current project, I have to close my project and open another project to test the XML files he’s sending. If I could simply have two projects open, it would be sooooo much easier (and save a lot of time).

Originally my problem was wanting to move a scene bin from one project to another (since it’s helpful to split feature-length projects up into several sections).

I discovered the import feature allows you to import an entire project, or just sequences from that project. If you want to move a scene bin to another project, simply select “import,” choose your project, choose the scene sequence, and premiere will place the sequence and all the data into it’s own bin in your current project.

Nice.

It does take a bit for Premiere to find and “understand” all the sequences for import though (I’m running CS4.1 on a PC with an i7 950, 12GB of RAM, an SSD system drive, and a RAID-5 array with 700MB/sec throughput… still takes a while with all this power).

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